THE CAPRANICA

Here’s Mark Dever’s sermon notes - thanks to Josh Harris and Greg Gilbert (and Mark Dever).

Preaching Notes: Mark Dever (Josh Harris)

Josh Harris is doing all preachers a great favor by posting sermon notes of prominent modern preachers.  Here are C. J. Mahaney’s notes.

Preaching Notes: C.J. Mahaney (Josh Harris)

Every year I try to preach one sermon on how to listen to a sermon. Today is that day for this year. While every sermon should contain some rehearsal of the gospel, it is also true that the gospel should be that which causes us to listen effectively to a sermon. How [...]

Adrian Warnock has posted a number of interview clips with Ed Stetzer.  Here’s Stetzer on preaching.

adrianwarnock.com: VIDEO - Ed Stetzer Interview - Missional Preaching

Here’s some great stuff from John Piper on preaching.

adrianwarnock.com: VIDEO INTERVIEW - John Piper on Passionate Preaching

HT: Justin Taylor
A good meditation for this Saturday for both Pastor and Flock.

I will be asking these questions of myself today before I preach:

Between Two Worlds: Questions to Ask before You Preach

Pastor Steve Weaver points us to a new resource that boasts downloadable copies of some of the commentaries recommended by the late great Spurgeon.

New Website Featuring Spurgeon’s Recommended Commentaries « Pastor Steve Weaver’s Blog

Excellent interview with Thabiti Anyabwile in light of the recent flap over Barak Obama and his pastor, Jeremiah Wright.

Black Power from the Pulpit | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction

Though done last year - these would be well worth the listen?

Between Two Worlds: Dever and Ferguson Lectures on Preaching

So – I left off on this series a few months back and never posted what I do to actually construct an expository sermon – only what I do to study a passage. I suppose I became too busy putting sermons together to actually keep writing about how I do it. So, here’s my attempt [...]

Video clip of MacArthur on the necessity of preaching:

MacArthur on preaching « The Shepherd’s Scrapbook

Any of you pastors relate to this?  Here are a few ways to think positively about preaching poorly.

PastorHacks.Net: Top 5 Reasons Preaching a Poor Sermon is Good For Me (in the Long Run)…

I attended the Olford institute in my first DMin seminar.  Assuming Union will give a degree of direction and support to the Olford Ministries, Ibelieve the ministry will be greatly enhanced.  Good move from my vantage point.

Baptist Press - Union to acquire Olford Ministries - News with a Christian Perspective

This evening I will preach Romans 5:6-11 in a final message on the effects of our justification. Taking the advice of a popular pastor and author, C. J. Mahaney, I took some time to read a sermon by Charles Spurgeon on a portion of the text I will preach. Here’s are two selections [...]

Pastors James Billings, Stacy Johnson and myself had an uneventful drive down to beautiful San Diego, CA to catch a plane out to the frozen tundra of Minneapolis, Minnesota for the Desiring God Pastors’ Conference. From what we can estimate, we’ve experienced about a 90 degree change in the temperature from Hemet to Minneapolis. [...]

About My Exegetical Process
Once I have completed the diagram and the main idea of the text, I then go through each verse, studying each significant word and/or phrase. This could consist of tracing a word’s usage through the circles of context.[1] I note significant issues from verb tenses and syntactical structures. I [...]

Pastor Steve Weaver provides a solid list of books for preachers.

Pastor Steve Weaver’s Blog: My Favorite Books for Preachers

Exegeting the Text
Welcome to my neurosis. I again offer these posts as “the way I do it,” not as “the way it should be done.” So, here’s the beginning of the study process for me.
I begin my study of a passage each week (rarely am I more than a week ahead in [...]

For many this may be irrelevant material, however, for those of you in our congregation, you may not realize the particular approach I (and the other pastors, to one degree or another) take in choosing what I will preach each Sunday.
Planning My Preaching
Until my studies in the Doctor of Ministry program, I did not give [...]